Basil Shabazz: The Measure of Greatness
Basil Shabazz, a Pine Bluff athletic phenom and all-around athlete, has served as a standard for greatness, first as athlete and now as a...
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- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
The Rich History of Pine Bluff Cotton Seed Oil Companies
Initially thought of as waste from cotton production, in 1890 cotton seeds became a source of financial gain for Pine Bluff cotton...
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- Apr 20, 2022
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Martha Beall Mitchell: A Pine Bluff Original
This article is a reprint from the Explore Pine Bluff Blog due to anticipated interest in the upcoming Starz series Gaslit highlighting...
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
Amanda Trulock: An Unconventional Arkansas Plantation Owner
Amanda Trulock is remembered for being an unconventional Arkansas woman of her time. She held nuanced conflicted views about slavery,...
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- Apr 6, 2022
- 5 min
Wild Bill Hickok: A Gunslinging Legend of the Wild West
Born almost 2 centuries ago, Wild Bill Hickok is still remembered as a great lawman and a feared gunslinger, sometimes with either foot...
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- Mar 16, 2022
- 3 min
Madam M. E. Hockenhull: A Pine Bluff Business Woman Ahead of Her Time
This astute Pine Bluff entrepreneur owned a clothing store, beauty parlor, and beauty school all while designing women's attire,...
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- Mar 9, 2022
- 3 min
Rural Revolutionaries: 1918 Refusal by Black Pine Bluff Women to Pick Cotton
In 1918, a group of black women banded together against Pine Bluff city officials to increase their meager wages and succeeded against...
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- Feb 16, 2022
- 3 min
John Horse and the Black Seminoles: The Race to Freedom
John Horse courageously led Seminoles and enslaved people to freedom from Florida to Mexico, even stopping in Pine Bluff. Image Credit:...
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- Feb 2, 2022
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Dr. Carter G. Woodson & The Rich History of Black History Month
Woodson, the child of enslaved people, achieved much his parents couldn’t. He became a celebrated Black historian, was the second African...
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- Jan 26, 2022
- 4 min
J. Mayo “Ink” Williams: Pioneering Blues Record Producer from Pine Bluff
J. Mayo “Ink” Williams not only goes down in the annals of history as a great professional athlete, but as a better blues and jazz record...
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- Jan 19, 2022
- 4 min
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & AM&N College: A Historic Stop on His Civil Rights Journey
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1958 commencement address at Arkansas AM&N College inspired hundreds of students and gave the college the...
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- Aug 25, 2021
- 3 min
Wilkerson v. the State of Arkansas
This 1947 landmark case put an end to the practice of excluding African Americans from juries, which had been ongoing since Reconstruction.
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- Aug 18, 2021
- 3 min
Getting to Know G.W. "Buddy" Turner, Jr.
Grover White “Buddy” Turner, Jr. was an Arkansas legislator who influenced state policy from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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- Aug 11, 2021
- 3 min
Meet C.C. Mercer, Jr.
He was one of the Six Pioneers who helped integrate the University of Arkansas Law School, and key advisor to Daisy Bates.
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- Aug 4, 2021
- 3 min
Winona Sammon: The Not-Quite-It Girl
This Pine Bluff native was supposed to be the next big thing in Hollywood in the 1920s, but things didn't turn out as planned.
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- Jul 28, 2021
- 3 min
Cleon Flowers: The Godfather of Arkansas Medicine
Dr. Cleon A. Flowers Sr. spent nearly six decades lovingly tending to patients.
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- Jul 21, 2021
- 3 min
Irene Rosenzweig: Scholar and Benefactor
Irene Rosenzweig excelled during an era when few women pursued lives outside the domestic sphere.
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- Jul 7, 2021
- 3 min
Dexter Harding’s Sawdust Bridge
A silly superstition predating the Civil War once held the town of Pine Bluff hostage.
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- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
Raye Jean Montague: A Real-Life Hidden Figure
Raye Jean Montague was an American naval engineer credited with creating the first computer-generated rough draft of a U.S. naval ship.
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- Jun 23, 2021
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M.D. Jordan: Shaping a Generation
Massathau D. Jordan, also known as M.D. Jordan was an educator, a leader, and a motivator for thousands of students at Merrill School.
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